Joan Russow, Green Party of Canada Leader, was present at our AGM. Greens in Calgary win a moral victory against the City of Calgary and Province of Alberta over the use of pesticides nearer bodies of water than the pesticide labels allow.

An examination of how proportional representation would have resulted in a completely different parliament in the notorious election of 1993 that virtually exterminated the Progressive Conservative party.

Greens in Quebec reorganize after recovering from the shock of achieving success only to have their leader defect to the Parti Québecois. Ontarios dynamic new leader Frank de Jong meets greens around the province in his bicycle tour.

Geek Information

The newsletter was originally produced in ClarisWorks (now AppleWorks). We tried Microsoft Word for a while (with predictable miserable results). Eventually I chose Adobe FrameMaker and have stuck with that since 1999 (despite the lack of marketing of this fine product by Adobe).